Here’s a rather long video I found via The Organic Consumers Association that raises a provoking point:

With the end of cheap oil will we need to revive the Mom and Pop business?

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Not your typical Youtube video, this one plays a bit like a documentary and includes lots of old footage and interesting commentary. The point it brings up though is one that can give an ecopreneur pause. Do you dreams include having one store in a small shopping center?

Probably not

Ecopreneurs tend to dream big dreams. But in this new world of cheap oil, maybe smaller is the new bigger. Adapting to the end of cheap oil may mean, heck already means, that people are spending less time in their cars and staying closer to home to shop.

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